Emily Dickinson was born in 1886 in Amherst Massachusetts. She was the type of person who maintained such privacy that even her family members were unaware of many specifics about her life. Since being born into a wealthy family and her father being elected to Congress, she was able to attend the Amherst Academy and then attended a Christian school named, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. As a young child, Dickinson questioned the Christian practice and resisted living the religious lifestyle. Dickinson mentioned how she always felt alone, she did not have a close relationship with her brother or sister and referred to her father as a tyrant and her mother as absent-minded. She tended to avoid contact with them and the isolation only grew when she entered her twenties. Dickinson’s last wish to her family was to burn all her writings once she was gone instead, they published them, and her writing became very popular.